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Photo/ Susie Walsh
April 14, 2010. Award recipients in the WHNPA's 2010 The Eyes of History contest in the White House Press Briefing room, waiting for their Oval Office photo with President Obama...
READ MORE about some of this year's contest winners on the CONTEST page: Chip Somodevilla,
Photographer of the Year; Bethany Swane, Video Photographer of the Year; Chris Shlemon,
Video Editor of the Year; and Alex Wong, who shot the Political Photo of the Year
To view this year's winning still and newmedia entries, visit THE EYES OF HISTORY™ 2010 .
Award-winning videos will be added soon.
2009 WHNPA PROJECT GRANT AWARDED TO ANDREA BRUCE
WHNPA Announces Education Project Grant Winner: Andrea Bruce
(WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 2010) – Andrea Bruce, freelance photographer on contract for the Washington Post, has been chosen as the recipient of the White House News Photographers 2009 Project Grant. The grant total of $10,000, half from the WHNPA and a matching amount of $5,000 from PNY Technologies Inc., will fund ‘The Caucasus at the Crossroads: Ingushetia's Decisive Moment’, which Bruce plans to publish in magazines, major news web-sites and a traveling exhibition in the Caucasus.
The Republic of Ingushetia is a splinter of land west of Chechnya that is caught in Russia’s struggle to hold on to the North Caucasus. Bruce's project focuses on the Ingush people and the changes they confront in the wake of violence in Chechnya and Georgia as well as the choices they make while faced with harsh Russian forces and a conflicting wave of Muslim extremism gaining support in the area. Bruce said of the project, “One of Russia poorest and most restive regions, Ingushetia has been destabilized by corruption, a number of high-profile crimes and an increase in religious extremism. It's a region that has received very little international attention and yet has the potential to become one of the most dangerous places in the world.”
While photographing in Iraq for The Washington Post, she has witnessed similar power struggles and outlets for Muslim extremism. WHNPA Education Committee Chairman Pablo Martinez Monsivais announcing the award said: “Andrea Bruce's project is in part of the world that is often overlooked but should not be ignored and with this grant she can bring more attention to the region.” Bruce is a four-time winner of WHNPA's Photographer of the Year Award.
“Photojournalists are unspoken heroes who have the ability to connect the world through photographs, and in times of conflict give war a memorable face. We wish Andrea the best as she takes a stand for the Ingush people and bears witness to capture the societal destruction of this area, a region many people may have not even heard of, and bring it into focus for the public’s eye,” said Tony Gomez, vice president of sales and marketing at PNY.
Bruce also commented, “WHNPA has been great at encouraging photographers to go beyond one-time news stories and cover an issue in a more complete and nuanced way. I also thank PNY for their continued commitment to photojournalism.”
In commenting about the grant award White House News Photographers Association president John Harrington said, “ The WHNPA is committed to supporting member projects through the project grant program for work that makes an impact and potentially changes lives. These grants re-enforce the power of photography and its place in the visual media as a catalyst for change. Andrea's passion for bringing stories to light from remote regions of the world will be supported and rewarded through this grant. The WHNPA is so pleased that PNY has stepped forward with a matching grant that will allow Bruce to commit more of her talents and time to this worthwhile project.”
For more information please contact John Harrington at john.harrington@whnpa.org or executive director Heidi Elswick at heidi@whnpa.org (301-606-8251). To view additional images in this series, use the slideshow link below.
This slideshow offers just a small sampling of the remarkable coverage of the Haitian earthquake and its aftermath by nine WHNPA members. Our thanks to David Gilkey, NPR; Carol Guzy, The Washington Post, Gerald Herbert, AP; Brendan Hoffman, Corbis; Nikki Kahn, The Washington Post; Rod Lamkey, Jr, freelancer; John Poole, NPR; Astrid Riecken, freelancer; and Jewel Samad, Agence France Presse, for sharing these extraordinary images.
We will continue to add to the Haiti gallery as more photographs become available.
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Carol Guzy, The Washington Post
Gerald Herbert, AP
Jewel Samad, AFP
David Gilkey, NPR
Nikki Kahn, The Washington Post
John Poole, NPR
Photo/Brendan Hoffman, Corbis
Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr
Photo/Astrid Riecken
DULLES AIRPORT EXHIBITION
WHNPA at Dulles International Airport. “Washington DC Through Our Eyes”—White House News Photographers Association
Travelers to and from Washington will have an opportunity to view a major exhibition by The White House News Photographer Association. Forty-four photographs with photographer’s credit are now on display in the halls of the C-Gates of the AeroTrain System. These gates support United Airlines and various foreign airlines serving Dulles. The photographs in this exhibit will rotate so other photographs from WHNPA members will be seen in the exhibition. Members will recall the solicitation for images for this exhibit by Heidi Elswick. Members should thank WHNPA president, John Harrington, Tara Hamilton, Public Affairs Manager, and Margaret Bishop, the exhibit project manager, Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority for this exhibition. Dulles airport exhibition.
David Gilkey, NPR
